The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-06-30
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

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ings; z. j. Mills, Sioux Falls.
The Omaha announces the compile
ton Of the Sioux Falls line from
Salem to Mitchell, and that it is open
for passenger traffic. All trains 10
running between Worthington and
Sioux Falls will be continued, and in
addition a new train will leave Mitch
ell at 1880 p. m. for st. Paul, and
returning arrive at Mitchell at $40
q. m.
Judge Mcconnell, at Fargo, decides
that assessors returns cannot be re-
duced by county commissioners.
The regents at Grand Forks recelv-
ed a bid from a responsible party to
put the university Of North Dakota
in as good shape as it was before the
storm for $4,000.
The organization of the Southwest.
ern Telegraph company was perfected
at Yankton. Eastern capitalists are
heavily interested. The intention OF
the company is to cover Omaha asits
southern connection with lines ex-
tending through southern and central
Dakota and western Iowa with lines.
to Minneapolis. st. Paul and Duluth.
The board of members and direc-
tors of Southern Dakota university,
now in session there, have elected the
following directors: Hon. A. j. .Edger-
ton, Mitchell. chairman; E. B. Bracy,
Mitchell; Rev. A. w. Atkinson, Hur-
on; =. s. Ormsby, Emmetsburg; Rev.
William Fielder, Huron; Rev. HI. D.
Haveller, Watertown; Rev. O. H.
Sprout, Alexandria; Rev. l.. Brad
ford, Rev. c. B. Clark, Mitch
ell. The new board on organi-
zation stands with A. J. Edgerton as
president, Rev. G. B. Clark secretary.
and r. N. Kratz treasurer.
George Gibbon, alaborer, was struck
by lightning and killed near Faulkton.
Father o. Zardetti, professor ofdog-
matte theology at St. Francis semi
nary, Wisconsin has been appointed
vicar general Of Dakota, under Bish-
op Martin Marty, with headquarters
at Yankton.
A farmer named Hanson, livingnear
Frankfort, was struck by lightning
and killed,
Minotis to have glorious fourth"
with 800 Indians to participate.
In attempting to leap from a box
car to the tender, A. N. PARCEL, a
Northern Pacific brakeman, aged
twenty-five, fell to the track and was
run over near Spiritwood and killed.
The train reached jamestown before
he was missed.
Another heavy rainfall descended on
Dakota on the Goth, extending from
Salem on the southeast to Ludden on
the north above Columbia, and from
Pierre on the west to Brookings on
the east.
Dakota continues to grow with
great rapidity. It has a number OF
excellent colleges and a good school
system employing more thar 5000
teachers. This is double the number
OF teachers in New Hampshire and
New Jersey, and half as many as are
employedin Massachusetts,. Thirteen
states in the Union maintain fewer
schools than Dakota. In the num-
Der of it's banks Dakota leads twenty
five states of the Union, and in many
other ways shows that it is destined
to become n of the greatest states
OF the Union.
At Ipswich, the Mortgage, Bank and
Investment company has been incor.
porated with $500, 900 capital. The
stock is being taken by eastern capt.
talists.
The depot OF the Chicago & North
western Railway company at Pierre,
caught fire and. with two car loads of
freight, burned. Part OF Youmans
Bros. & Hodgins' lumber yard was
also destroyed.
Redfield was selected as the place Of
the next meeting Of the Dakota Medi.
cal Society which will be held the
third Thursday of June, 1885,. Drs.
Moody, Van Velson and Buchanan
were appointed censors for the year.
Bids for the location of the next
Southern Dakota fair were received
from Yankton. Huron and Sioux Falls
Of $4,000 each. Huron secured the
location by votes OF herself, Pierre,
De Smet, Miller, Sioux Falls, 81, while
Yankton received, besides her own
votes, those of Mitchell. Aberdeen.
Parker, Scotland, Kimball and Cham
berlain.
Hon. Alex Griegs, Abe Boynton and
N. @. Smith, Dakota railroad COM
missioners, have located q station on
the Milwaukee road between Andover
and Langford, where farmers COM
planned the distance was too far be-
tween stations.
The Dakota Medical association 81.
elected Dr.. ID. +. Etter of Yankton pres.
ident and DR.. III. E. McNutt of Aber-
deem secretary. Papers were read by
DR.. Morgan.
There is considerable excitement at
Aberdeen over the attempted burning
OF the Sherman house, the largest ho
tel in the city.
Another strong effort will be made
to secure the opening Of the Sioux res
ervation by the lei congress. Alarpe
meeting was held in Pierre and a plan
OF action adopted that will most Ger.
tainly be felt in Washington when cor,
gress convenes.
tt is announced at FARGO. that tLo n